By the way, the LAST Weed'em and Reap garden club meeting of the year is coming up NEXT week. (11-11-11) I just noticed the unique date. May be an extra special meeting?

I want to get the notice in early, but don't confuse the comment to think it is this week.

-- Posted by stevemills on Thu, Nov 3, 2011, at 12:14 PM

I wonder how long until that machine is co-opted for use in certain types of dispensaries in California?

-- Posted by quietmike on Thu, Nov 3, 2011, at 1:19 PM

I agree, California will probably get it first, if it is not there already.

Sounds like Star-Trek technology too!

-- Posted by stevemills on Thu, Nov 3, 2011, at 3:54 PM

That is so cute! I had catnip growing in barrels/planters in my cat sanctuary but Rupert my cat smashed it.

-- Posted by 4fabfelines on Fri, Nov 4, 2011, at 11:44 AM

There was a Canadian show that aired for a while on Cooking Channel called "Food Jammers" -- it's hard to describe, but it had these three young men who would build various crazy food-related contraptions, like creating their own homemade soda flavors and rigging a dispenser in the living room, with tubes running into a spare fridge where the soda tanks were kept.

Anyway, one of my favorite contraptions was a taco vending machine. They designed a setup that would build a taco at the punch of a button -- warming up the shell, dispensing beef, cheese and other toppings into it. Completely and utterly impractical, but fun to watch and think about.

-- Posted by Jicarney on Fri, Nov 4, 2011, at 2:34 PM

I don't know John, it could become the next rage. Weren't vending machine dining rooms big at one time in the "big cities"?

Or maybe that was another life. Oh well.

I was expecting some grazing of the catnip, but not sleeping in it. Maybe it will adapt as a low growing version.

-- Posted by stevemills on Fri, Nov 4, 2011, at 4:32 PM

Maybe before the next hard frost I will move another plant into a smaller pot. One they can't jump in.

Steve Mills and his wife have one daughter. They previously owned two coffee/ice cream shops, currently operate an internet sales company and teach classes, but his primary job involves the paper industry worldwide. Hobbies and interests lie in gardening, photography, recorded music and of course, their pets.